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British online supermarket, Ocado, is trialling a prototype collaborative robot designed to support human technicians maintain and repair equipment in the company’s automated warehouses

More than 92,000 images of the moon’s surface taken in the 1960s by Nasa’s Surveyor missions have been digitised in a project conducted by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Two Active Silicon frame grabbers are being launched on a scientific balloon high into the Earth’s atmosphere as part of a research project to explore Earth-like exoplanets

The first public run of the Bloodhound SSC land speed record car has taken place at Cornwall airport, reaching 200mph in eight seconds. Cameras onboard were supplied by Stemmer Imaging

A monitoring system that gives real-time information on the wear occurring on rail wheels to enhance rail safety is under development as part of the Wheelwatcher EU Horizon 2020 programme

A set of 13 sixteenth century Italian wind instruments has been restored to working condition by Swiss experts using 3D X-ray imaging

Chinese glass producer Wuhan Changli has improved quality control on its production lines by installing an automated inspection system. The company manufactures more than 12 million square metres of low emissive glass per year

A vision analysis system from Kinatrax has helped keep baseball pitchers from the Chicago Cubs' team that won the 2016 World Series injury-free. Greg Blackman reports from a talk Steven Cadavid at Kinatrax gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara

Japanese inspection system builder, MEK Marantz Electronics, has been able to increase the resolution of its PCB inspection machines with FPGA processing